Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 Review: Perfecting the Best!
May. 23, 2018What’s New?
This comes as a nice touch, since Photoshop has recently been receiving a lot of flare from the users, due to its lower interest in typesetting capabilities, as compared to the company’s other designing products, such as Illustrator or InDesign. As such, it is nice to see Adobe now include more features into Photoshop, allowing users to use just a single software for the majority of their designing needs.
It is worth noting that this new variable fonts feature iscompatible only with OpenType fonts, and not TrueType fonts.That being said, the typefaces aren’t warped or transformed when utilizing Variable Font. In fact, Adobe has worked with type foundries and designers to make sure that all the typefaces maintain their correct structure when utilizing the variable font options, ensuring that every character looks crystal clear.
Accessing the Subject Selection feature is pretty easy too. Simply head over to Select -> Subject, or, while using the Quick Selection tool, clickSelect Subjectin the options bar. Either way, you can use the Select Subject tool to easily select the subject in the image. However, it is worth pointing out that since this is advanced machine learning, it will only get better with time. In my usage of the feature, whileit worked well for most images, the software failed to recognize the subject accurately when it was used against images containing multiple subjects.
Additionally, the software also packs in the Rich Tooltips feature, which demonstrates how each tool in Photoshop works. That being said, the feature might sound rather obtrusive than helpful to users who are already familiar with the software. As such,advanced users have the option to disable the feature in the Preferences.
- Pulled String Mode
Paints only when the string is taut. Cursor movements within the smoothing radius leave no mark.
- Stroke Catch Up
Allows the paint to continue catching up with your cursor while you’ve paused the stroke. Disabling this mode stops paint application as soon as the cursor movement stops.
- Catch-Up on Stroke End
Completes the stroke from the last paint position to the point where you released the mouse/stylus control.
The new update runs comparatively smoother on a wider variety of devices now, thanks to the under-the-hood optimizations. Also, one of the major issues with Photoshop has been the learning curve to it, which is quite steep. However, with the new in-app learning feature, new users can get accustomed to the plethora of features that Photoshop offers in no time.
What’s more, is thatit comes as part of the Photography Plan, which means you get access to Lightroom CC and Lightroom CC Classic, and an additional 20GB of cloud storage, for no extra cost. You can check out the full details of the pricinghere.
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